Very sad news if he has died. I liked him a lot on Twitter and he taught me how to wear a crepe urine tray as a hat.

Good to see that the remaining marquee names of British journalism still employ the practice of "banging out". One of the more visceral thrills in a modern-day newsroom, equalled only by TMZ reporting an A-lister's death.

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What I can be happy about - what I can hope is – at some near time in some near place, even if it is inside your minds, some of you will have a little 'banging out’ ceremony for me. I’d like that. I’d really like that.

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Music journo David Cavanagh has died, according to Mark Paytress. He wrote an excellent book about Creation Records and, iirc, was the person who famously gave (What's The Story) Morning Glory 3 stars in Q.

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No QO just yet, but the Watford Observer has posted an obit for Ricketts and it has a lot of emphasis on him doing work for the Guardian, him having a big Twitter following, etc. I think we'll be seeing something qualifying very shortly.

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Music journo David Cavanagh has died, according to Mark Paytress. He wrote an excellent book about Creation Records and, iirc, was the person who famously gave (What's The Story) Morning Glory 3 stars in Q.

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Sid Crim, a former top executive at The State (South Carolina) newspaper who helped oversee major changes in the newspaper’s pre-Internet history, died earlier this week (Dec 30) after an 18-year struggle with Parkinson’s Disease. He was 76.

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Jim Bailey, a longtime sports writer for the Arkansas Gazette and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, died Wednesday night after a battle with Alzheimer's disease. He was 86. Bailey had suffered from Alzheimer's since 2008.

Bailey covered the Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference, the Arkansas Travelers and boxing for the Gazette from 1956 until the newspaper's closing in 1991. He then worked for the Arkansas Times and the Democrat-Gazette before retiring in 2013. Bailey also covered the Arkansas Razorbacks and St. Louis Cardinals for the Gazette.
In addition to his newspaper work, Bailey co-wrote The Razorbacks, a story of the University of Arkansas football program, with Gazette sports editor Orville Henry in 1973 and was a co-author with longtime Arkansas football coach and athletic director Frank Broyles on his autobiography, Hog Wild: The Autobiography of Frank Broyles, in 1979. He also wrote a book on the Travelers in 1980, which was republished in 2007 as The Arkansas Travelers: 100 Years in Baseball.